thirty-six:: v2.0

another thirty-six answers to another thirty-six questions about the orange.paper.bike::

• i love maps and most things geographical;
  
• i have a map of the world on my bedroom wall;
  
• before i die i intend to visit antarctica;
  
• i also want to take the trans-siberian railway at least once;
  
• in winter;
  
• i do not own a tv;
  
• the last tv i owned, i inherited from my father when he died;
  
• that tv died in february of this year;
  
• i prefer to have music on than tv;
  
• i like most kinds of music except rap and country/ western;
  
• i love to buy new books;
• especially biographies;
  
• and cookbooks from famous chefs;
  
• my favourite celeb chefs are nigella lawson and jamie oliver;
  
• i love to cook;
  
• i don't cook as much as i'd like to have time for;
  
• desserts and pastries are my favourite things to cook;
  
• i think finland has the best pastries in the world;
  
• i'm probably biased in that opinion;
  
• i currently own my second kitchenaid stand mixer;
  
• i think it's a gay man's equivalent of carrying a coach purse;
  
• i managed a four-star restaurant while i was in college;
  
• to date, it's still my favourite job i've ever had;
• i've never suffered a broken bone;
  
• i have suffered from a broken heart many times;
  
• i do not believe in any deity;
  
• i do believe in reincarnation;
  
• i am an amateur black and white photographer;
  
• portraits and graffitti are my favourite subjects;
  
• i occassionally have a recurring dream that i've been having since i was age four or five;
  
• in the dream i am the size of a grain of sand in between the ceramic tiles of a floor. a giant red ball is bouncing toward me to crush me. then a very warm and velvety feeling covers my body, just before i wake up. recently a spider appeared off in the distance on the tile floor;
  
• i have never had the dream professionally interpreted, though my therapist swears it has to do with my feet;
• my sisters and brother once tricked me into letting them run over my ankles with their bicycles when i was four years old;
  
• they also later tricked me into eating coffee grounds, a spider, and a tablespoon of pure vanilla;
  
• my birthday is ten days before little baby jesus' birthday;
• as a kid, my parents celebrated my half-birthday so i wouldn't feel cheated by getting presents for both my birthday and little baby jesus's birthday;
  

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